Thanks for your reply. The class is a 12 week Continuing and Professional studies intensive offered at a University. It is really supposed to prepare the student to take the first 3 of the Oracle DBI certification exams. Its gone through SQL and PL/SQL, Performance Tuning, and Architecture Administration. The course promised hands-on work along with lecture, but turned out to be all lecture. The project is really not representive of the classwork. We spent a total of maybe one hour on perl and HTML combined. Before that I was not exposed to these languages. I am more comfortable with SQL. There were no prerequisites for this. The class is over. I have an 'I' until I complete the project as I am sure everyone else in the class has. I have tried getting the Instructor to give me some of his time to help me understand what's needed but he is very unhelpful,ignores most of my emails, and refuses to give me a contact number. It seems they are more helpful getting you to pay for the course more than anything else. I have received some good links from other people on here that I will check out and see if they cant help me get a handle on this. Some of them seem easy enought to understand. Contrary to what some may believe I really want to do my own homework. Thanks again.